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bent

/bent/US // bɛnt //UK // (bɛnt) //

弯曲的,弯曲,弯的,弯弯曲曲

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : curved; crooked: a bent bow; a bent stick.
    • : determined; set; resolved: to be bent on buying a new car.
    • : Chiefly British Slang. morally crooked; corrupt.stolen: bent merchandise.
    • : Chiefly British Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. gay.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : direction taken, as by one's interests; inclination: a bent for painting.
    • : capacity of endurance: to work at the top of one's bent.
    • : Civil Engineering. a transverse frame, as of a bridge or an aqueduct, designed to support either vertical or horizontal loads.
    • : Archaic. bent state or form; curvature.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouninclination; talent

Examples

  • There is no reason to really be bent out of shape or get worried or frustrated with anything.

  • Inside each pack is a metal disk that needs to be snapped or bent to release a heat-generating compound.

  • As the value of the crates has risen, so too has a new class of criminals hell-bent on stealing honeybees.

  • The daughter of a mobster, Ji-U is bent on seeking revenge after her father’s death and poses as a police officer to find the parties responsible.

  • I don’t want to go so far as to say that there’s like a fascist or authoritarian bent here.

  • Those with a slightly sleazier bent have dredged up reports of his weight gain, substance abuse, and arrest.

  • One detainee was bent over for a rectal feeding that involved Ensure, the protein shake.

  • But Flagg, too, comes apart in his machinations, bent ever more fully on political domination.

  • Eric Garner was bent over, wrestled down, spread out, and squeezed until he popped.

  • No one is saying you wake up every morning hell-bent on killing unarmed black kids.

  • He frowned, and bent his head, and his long hair fell over his face, while the poor Stuttgardter sat there like a beaten hound.

  • This judicial bent of the child is a curious one and often develops a priggish fondness for setting others morally straight.

  • Lady Maude advanced; she had really come in by accident; her head was bent, her eyelashes rested on her flushed cheeks.

  • Then she bent her glance to the writing, and studied it a moment, what time the man from Paris watched her closely.

  • She opened a large black fan and moved it slowly while looking intently at her son's bent profile.

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